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equally as liberal in their religious exerci8e8, though made by a pastor neatly p rin te d a n d d istrib u te d all over th e U nit
eral U niversity established in S il views. These broad-m inded men who“ or‘hodo,xy ,wa8.
S tates, w ill help us to b u ild th e L iberal U ni
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versity. R eader, how m any can you d is trib u te to
verton, Oregon, the only U niversity . . .
questioned, and who is a trustee of gotxi advantage? T his will Cost you n o th in g b u t
effort, and may help th e canse of Free-
di(
not
propose
to
attack
any
creed,
one
of ^})e mos^ venerable evan- a th little
of the kind in the world. A nd we
o u g h t very m uch
or introduce any new religious ! gelical colleges in the land,
consider it the m ost im p o rtan t
ideas, only to teach scientific, de-1 Our R esident F aculty have fared
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leading
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Colleges
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institution as the founders intend-
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various denom inations; though all
ed,
free
from
sectarianism
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bore
the highest com m endations
in the u n d ertak in g to the extent of
8 hould H e l p to B u il d
his or her ability, for if it is to grand men, who were am ong the j from the faculties of those institu-
truest, bravest and noblest this | tions; though all, so far as I know,
prove a success it m ust be by the
country ever produced, tried their i are members of or atte n d a n t upon ^ L ib e r a l U niversity
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ple who are free from superstition. best to c a r r 7 y o u t the 6 grand work ! t com m unity
have been led to be-
Xo others can be expected to aid it. they ha I undertaken, but they had j ljeVe th a t these men are plotting
1 It will help many young men and
And as there are very few rich men not more than got well started in ¡against C hristianity.
young
women to a higher education who
th eir work before the bigots of the
Of all this, sir, I m ake not the
otherwise will grow up without its great
who are outspoken and in d ep en
country commenced to scent h e re sy ,! ^¡K htest com plaint. Those of us advantages.
dent F reeth in k ers, the contributions
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who have pledged our lives and
2 It will educate workers for the great
and
charge
th
a
t
Cornell
U
n.versity
fortunP8
t'hig bBuilding up of w hat forward
march of Freethought and Pro
m ust evidently come m ostly from
gress.
was
run
by
pagans
and
haters
of
we
th
in
k
a
better
and
broader
uni-
poor men, an d therefore it is very
3 It will forever silence the accusation
necessary th a t each Liberal con C hristianity, and a united effort versity education expected such at- that Secularists have never done any
was made by orthodox C hristians tacks—and perhaps they are the thing.
tribute w hat he can afford to.
4 It will hasten the time when Reason
everywhere to destroy th a t institu- j r,i?st 8Ure R’^ n8 th ftt the work is
and
Love will reign, and when supersti
There are probably 50,000 professed ..
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going on well. We sim ply cona
tion
and hate will tie forever gone.
F reethinkers in th is country, and ifj tion, and in a few years they sue- meR(j thege fact8 t0 eVery thought-
5 It will give you an opportunity to
build yourself and others a monument,
each would give the sm all sum of ceeded in driving out of th a t Uni- fu l m an and woman.
while
you yet live, that will do a million
most of these Liberal pro-
a
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82 it would give this new in s titu versity
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I h a t was the kind of treatm en t times more good than the most costly
tion $100,000, which would place it fessors, and those whom they did th a t Cornell U niversity received one of cold, senseless marble.
on a firm and perm anent basis. not drive out they p u t a muzzle on. from the orthodox C hristians, ju st
Only th in k of it. If each one of us Prof. Oliver felt compelled to join because it proposed to be non-
If all help a little , w e can a c
will contribute this sm all sum , we the U n itarian C hurch, th a t he sectarian. Bigotry is not quite as com plish m uch. W ill you help
will have an in stitu tio n in this m ight be known as a C hristian, not ra m p a n t today as it was then, but a little ?
country th a t will be the lig h t of w ithstanding this good man (no no in stitu tio n would now be allow
the world. An in stitu tion th a t will better ever lived), was always at ed to live where C hristians had the
Six Tracts to Promote
h eart as Liberal in his views as
attract the atten tio n of every in
least control, th a t should declare
Col. Ingersoll.
telligent friend of H um an Progress
itself as th e especial advocate of
To prove the tru th of what we a8certained tru th on a „ que8tion8
in all civilized countries.
In Place of Christianity:
have
above
stated
about
the
attack
In
8aying
thj8
we
are
u.
uolu8u,
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,
It m ay be said th a t the old and
1 Can Sins be Forgiven?
well-established colleges and u n i m ade y the C lristian s on orne ]east blam ing the professors of the 2 Does Christianity or Science Promote Civil-
versities are becoming very free, U niversity, we will here quote from present e8tablished educational i n - 1 12atl0,1?
and * are doing ° m uch to liberate the I
public and the m inds of th eir s tu
dents from m edieval superstition,
. — ng the best they
November,
1870:
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and th a t we therefore need no
’
circum stances— the oest . they
can
others. T h at they are more L ib
From the day when Mr. Cornell’s and keep th eir places.
to hand to your Christian friends. Send
T hus it appears conclusively th a t
eral th an form erly we readily a d offer was m ade to give a large sum
2 cents for 6, or 6 cents for 25 tracts,
to E liza M owry B livkn , Brook
to
establish
the
university,
there
we
need
a
university
built
up
and
mit, and we rejoice th a t we can
lyn, Conn., or send 10 cents
have been a few persons eager in established by em ancipated men
tru th fu lly m ake the adm ission,
for 50, either kind or as
scenting out heresy. Before a stone and women, where C hristian super-
8orM?a
sorted KinaB
kinds, lo
to
nevertheless th e tru th com pels us was laid or an officer chosen, it was stR ution has not the least control— T lJ r- .
to say th a t th ere is not, in this hinted
h
th at the institution was to
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